io82 The Trees of Great Britain and Ireland 



often killed back by frost, and in low-lying or exposed situations the trees are killed 



outright in cold seasons. 



In the garden of the Rev. A. Boscawen at Ludgvan. near Penzance, the growth 

 of seedlings is extraordinary, and the ability of the tree to bear sea-winds is greater 

 than that of any other pine. As regards soil it must be well drained and light to 



ensure success. 



Mr. Rogers, of Penrose, Cornwall, says^ that he planted about looo trees, 

 many in the most exposed borders of plantations near the sea in Mount's Bay, most 

 of them being seedlings from his older trees. He considers it one of the best of 

 nurses, giving better shelter and growing faster than either the Austrian or maritime 

 pine; but it suffers severely from snow in a cold winter, losing entire limbs and 

 often dying from its effects.^ He has used wood of thirty years' growth both for 

 furniture and for wheelbarrows, etc., and finds it easily worked, light in weight, 

 tough and strong, though liable, as might be expected from immature timber, to be 

 worm-eaten. If planted closely, it will produce clean straight timber. 



Remarkable Trees 



The largest specimens reported in 1891 were at Dropmore. then 90 ft. by 11 ft, 

 planted in 1839, and Boconnoc, then 68 ft. by 13 ft. ; but these are now far surpassed 

 by many others. 



The most remarkable that I have seen is a tree in a sheltered dell called the 

 Wilderness at Cuffnell's, near Lyndhurst, which in 1907 was 116 ft. by 8 J ft., with 

 a clean bole about 40 ft. long. Plate 282 shows how very unlike this is to its usual 

 habit both in California and England. 



The next tallest was a tree, no longer living, which, as I am told by Rev. A. 

 Boscawen, was carefully measured at Heligan in Cornwall in 1897 by the Hon. 

 Charles Ellis, who found it to be 108 ft. high. This was a seedling of unknown age, 

 raised from a tree which I saw on the lawn at Heligan in 1905 ; a very rugged and 

 wide-spreading tree which, though only about 50 ft. high, was 18 ft. in girth. It was 

 blown down in May 1909. 



There are many other very large trees, of which I give particulars in tabular form 

 as follows : — 



Haldon House, Devonshire . 

 Heanton Satchville, Devonshire 

 Knowle Hotel, Sidmouth, Devon- 

 shire ..... 

 Lamorran, Cornwall 



Coldrennick, Cornwall . 



^ Woods and Forests, 1883, p. 19. 



^ Loudon, in Gard. Mag: xv. 269 (1839), states that plants were killed nearly everywhere in Britain by the severe winter 

 of 1838-39 ; but one survived at Sunning Hill, in the grounds of Mr. R. Mangles. It was growing on dry elevated ground. 

 A tree at Gunnersbury, 48 ft. high, was reported in Gard. Chron. 1868, p. 152, to have been killed by the severe frost of 

 1867. In the severe winter of 1908-9, when the temperature fell at Kew to 10° F. on 30th December, the leaves on this pine 

 tree were injured, and turned a rusty brown colour, Cf, Kew Bull., 1909, p. 225. 



